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Hello fellow Far Side fans!
About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.
The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side
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Blanks are fake/prop bullets basically, loud bang (though if you put one to your head you'll still die). And the comic is saying the animals found out he's just making a loud noise and can't shoot them so they're spreading the info around.
Someone who's ever actually shot a gun feel free to chime in.
Pretty much, though blanks aren't actually bullets, they're rounds or cartridges. The main difference between blanks and regular rounds/cartridges is that blanks don't have bullets (the metal bit which gets shot out of the gun)
They still have the gunpowder though, so like can@sh.itjust.works said, they are still dangerous due to the explosion that no longer has to propel a bullet.
They often have more powder than a live round too.
When filming The Crow, a dummy bullet without powder or a real primer was loaded into a revolver for a shot and nobody realized the bullet fell out of the fake round into the barrel. So when the same revolver had blanks loaded into it in a later shot, the overcharged blank propelled the bullet from the barrel, killing star Brandon Lee.
In addition to the Brandon Lee scenario, you can blind or concuss or permanently deafen a person by firing a blank round very close to their head.
Ah, should have caught that after watching videos of it being animated with the whole cartridge being propelled out. I wanted to say "shell" there but I assume that's wrong too?
Generally, shell is used to describe explosive projectiles/payloads or ammunition for shotguns.
In contrast, bullets are specifically projectiles that are sent through the barrel of a firearm when the propellant inside a round/cartridge is ignited. The casing (which contains the propellant and holds the bullet in place) is what is ejected after firing. The round/cartridge is the package as a whole.
I'll try to remember that, thank you.
Ok, but is there more to it? Are the lions planning to eat him? Are they usually trained to be afraid of the gun?
That's my best guess. I've shot a gun, but I've never shot a lion, so I'm no expert. I don't even know how to reload one.
So they're reloading lions? Is that why there are so many?
They're in a zoo I think so I believe they are meant to fear the gun? More scary than a chair.